It’s very difficult to take these kinds of criticisms seriously, when they are so profoundly stupid.
Your posts about Jordan Peterson show you as a resentful, bitter man, who doesn’t have even a quarter of Peterson’s intellect or brainpower. I’m not surprised you are so envious of his success and popularity.
You also currently do not have the cognitive depth of thinking to appreciate how profound and ingenious the Bible is – but that can change if you try harder.
I’m not at all envious of Peterson! I would not want to have his mental and physical problems, nor would I want the kind of popularity that puts me in the same room as Ben Shapiro.
I’ve read the Bible — well, I skimmed through long sections of it, admittedly, because it is a badly written, inconsistent bore full of pretentious text — and it’s not particularly profound or ingenious. Much of it is wrong or bad fantasy writing, which undercuts the claim that it is deep and clever.
The one thing interesting about the email is that it openly unifies two bad beliefs, in the profundity of Jordan Peterson and the profundity of the Bible. I pity the author.
Profound:
He’s right. You’re much smarter than a quarter of a cockroach.
“I’ve read the Bible”
The Scathing Atheist went further- in successive podcasts they skimmed the chapters of the Old Testament, then the chapters of the New Testament, and finally the suras of the Koran.
AAAAAAARGHHHH!
@ 2
Don’t forget The Book of Mormon.
Akira Mac Kenzie @ 3
AAAAAAAARGHHH!!
AAAAAAAAAARRGHHHH!!!
(basically, Homer Simpson when he was hypnotised to remember his childhood)
Adjectives! How do they work?
How does cognitive depth of thinking differ from the other kinds of thinking?
The Bible is true.
And when I say true, I mean false. It’s all lies.
But they’re very entertaining lies, and isn’t that really a greater kind of truth?
The answer…is no.
Clearly, you’re not trying hard enough. Just try harder!
Betcha the letter writer would have hated anything Peterson wrote before Peterson somehow turned lying about Bill C16 into international fame.
Too bad it doesn’t seem the …. correspondent …. didn’t trouble to articulate what they found particularly ingenious within the text of the Bible.
There’s a lot of profoundly inaccurate wisdom, though, truly.
You are confusing truth with truthiness.
The bible may not be true true, but if you believe in in hard enough it gets truthy enough for the cognitive dissonance to dissappear.
I’d counter you are a reasonable, better man, but you keep biting the hook to comment about JP. There…see…now I got sucked into the JP vortex too. Grrrr…
What success and popularity?
Peterson was finally pushed out of U. of Toronto for being a quack pseudoscientist and not showing up for work.
PZ at least still has a job.
Peterson is also having a hard time just staying alive.
Spending time on a ventilator in Moscow trying to kick a drug habit isn’t exactly a wholesome lifestyle.
Popularity?
With a few warped internet trolls?
Peterson has gone from a never was to a has been in a short period of time.
‘Ingenious’= Ingenuous or disingenuous?
“You’re just jealous?” Yeah, that’s a totally unequivocally mature response. Not.
Remember when JP’s fanboys would show up whenever/wherever JP’s name is mentioned and start reading from a script? I remember standardized lines like “out of context!” and “JP’s style is descriptive, not prescriptive,” and my favorite, “you can ask me anything, I’m here to help.” To this day I have no idea what the expected response to that last one was. I wonder what happened to that crowd…did they give up on JP, or just get bored, or maybe their source of talking-points went dark and left them with nothing to say or think…?